I Am Not Ready To Back Away

We Now Live In A Country With A Thousand Political Prisoners, A Country Where Each Week There Are New Trials, Where People Are Put In Jail Because They Liked Something On The Internet.

When Men Are Arrested Without Any Legal Basis And For Political Reasons, It's Merely A Routine, Everyday Occurrence In Russia, And Hardly Anyone Has Any Sympathy.

Unfortunately, People Expect A Russian Opposition Politician To Be A Manic Libertarian Who Thinks The Oligarchs Are Great, Who Isn't Interested In The Problems Of Retirees And Who Believes The Invisible Hand Of The Market Will Resolve Everything.

Putin Needs To Terrorize His Own Elite. He Is More Afraid Of Those In His Own Surroundings Than Any Protests; There Are People There Who Are At Least As Critical As I Am Because They See Up Close That The System Doesn't Work. He Wants To Silence Them.

Russia Should Join The International Coalition Against Islamic State. It Is Absurd That We Are Intervening On The Side Of The Shiites In A War Between Sunnis And Shiites Even Though Almost All Russian Muslims Are Sunnis. Putin Is Creating Big Problems For Us In His Attempt To Help Bashar Assad.